Pawleys Island Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Pawleys Island Historic District is a national historic district located at Pawleys Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings and contains buildings ranging from ca. 1780 to post World War I, and includes shoreline which the owners of these homes think they own, and marshland.”
Wikipedia article Pawleys Island Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Georgetown County · listed in 1972 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. W side of Pawleys Island, Pawleys Island, 29585
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. district
Census division. Waccamaw Neck
National Register reference number. 72001211 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Pawleys Island Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 323 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 May 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pawleys Island Historic District: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pawleys Island	Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
	Waverly Mills Quadrangle	Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Holy Cross Faith Memorial School	2.8 miles	2024
Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel	3.0 miles	1991
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Waccamaw	3.0 miles	1991
Nightingale Hall Rice Mill Chimney	5.0 miles	1988
Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney	5.6 miles	1988
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District	5.8 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001211 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Georgetown County	All 38 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.